October 27, 2004: Headlines: COS - Brazil: Politics: Election2004 - Funnell: Funnell for State Representative: During three years of volunteer service with the Peace Corps in Brazil, David Funnell worked to improve rural public-health education in the Amazon Basin and helped to plan resource allocation for food production in Pará

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October 27, 2004: Headlines: COS - Brazil: Politics: Election2004 - Funnell: Funnell for State Representative: During three years of volunteer service with the Peace Corps in Brazil, David Funnell worked to improve rural public-health education in the Amazon Basin and helped to plan resource allocation for food production in Pará

During three years of volunteer service with the Peace Corps in Brazil, David Funnell worked to improve rural public-health education in the Amazon Basin and helped to plan resource allocation for food production in Pará

I became a candidate to stop the tyranny of unjust judges who have usurped the authority of the legislature and governor with their Goodridge ruling.

I became a candidate to help Governor Romney bring back common sense to government.

I became a candidate to work for creative reform and political renewal in the Commonwealth.

About David Funnell...

David Funnell's perspective on public life was developed from a broad range of experience.

Born on Long Island, near his family's home in Huntington, New York, Mr. Funnell grew up in rural Maryland. His education began in public schools in Bel Air, Maryland, and continued at St. Paul's School for Boys near Baltimore. At Amherst College in Massachusetts he earned a bachelor's degree, with honors, in anthropology; after several years overseas, he began graduate studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he earned a master's degree in that field. His doctoral research on regional economic history and anthropology was conducted in the State of Pará, in northern Brazil, under a research grant in the Fulbright Program.

During three years of volunteer service with the Peace Corps in Brazil, he worked to improve rural public-health education in the Amazon Basin and helped to plan resource allocation for food production in Pará.

Following a period of continued research combined with part-time teaching at Barrington College in Rhode Island, Mr. Funnell embarked on a business career, at first with an automobile-related service business, and subsequently as head of Funnell Instruments, Ltd., which repairs surgical instruments for over a hundred medical facilities around New England. Mr. Funnell has invented a new type of biopsy-sampling instrument, for which he holds a patent.

Fluent in Portuguese, he enjoys many friendships among Brazilian and Azorean immigrants in New England.

David Funnell now lives in Uxbridge with his wife Christine and their third son Ned, who attends Uxbridge High School. Their first son Jacob lives and works in Beverly, while second son Ian is finishing college in Pennsylvania and preparing for medical school. The Funnells attend church at Calvary Temple in Holden.

When this story was posted in November 2004, this was on the front page of PCOL:

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